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Während Deutschland nach rechts blickt, eskaliert in der Berliner Linken ein handfester Konflikt um israelfeindliche und antisemitische Tendenzen. Cedric Looks erklärt, welchen Einfluss das radikale Umfeld des Neuköllner Abgeordneten Ferat Koçak in der Landespartei wirklich hat. Friedrich Merz stiftet mit Aussagen zu langen Wartezeiten auf Arzttermine für Verwirrung. Plant die Union plötzlich eine Bürgerversicherung für alle? Im 200-Sekunden-Interview stellt die CDU-Generalsekretärin Franziska Hoppermann klar, was wirklich hinter den Plänen steckt und wie die Partei das Gesundheitssystem umbauen will, ohne die private Krankenversicherung anzutasten. Hans von der Burchard berichtet vom Treffen zwischen Donald Trump und Wolodymyr Selenskyj, bei dem plötzlich versöhnliche…

Attacks on the government’s independent economic forecaster from left and right of the political spectrum are akin to “shooting the messenger”, according to an influential group of MPs.The Treasury committee rejected “siren calls to fundamentally reform” the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and said it should not be blamed when policymakers had to make tough decisions because of tight public finances.However, the MPs said they were persuaded that ministers should consider instructing the OBR to adopt a 10-year economic forecast to complement the five- and 50-year forecasts that it already publishes.Parliament should also set aside time to debate the OBR’s…

On the flight out to New York this week, one of Andy Burnham’s senior aides warned him that meeting Donald Trump would be the political equivalent of white water rafting.While there is a well-known playbook the US president deploys when he first meets other world leaders, he remains a deeply unpredictable figure and any dealings with him can leave you crashing into the rocks.Trump’s strategy involves personal flattery, transactional diplomacy and a public evaluation of his guest’s skills.When Keir Starmer first met the president at the White House early last year, it was there in spades. Trump praised his “beautiful”…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Europeans are spending an extra €30 on diesel each time they fill up, as the continent endures the biggest impact from high prices for the fuel of any major economy, new analysis shows.Diesel prices have reached record highs across the world as a result of disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and to supplies from Russian refineries. US President Donald Trump has urged Ukraine to stop bombing refineries in Russia as high prices pile pressure on the Republican Party ahead of US…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around the world are more privately debating. The prime minister, speaking with this editor at an event held along the waterfront edge of San Francisco’s Financial District, described his Bay Area trip as partly a fact-finding mission. He’d spent the morning touring Tesla and Sequoia Capital,…

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 new models in its GPT-6 family. They sit below GPT-6 Astra, which launched earlier this month. OpenAI trained both with methods similar to Astra’s. The aim is to bring Astra’s advances to faster, more affordable models. Deployable today? Yes. Both models are live in the OpenAI API as gpt-6-sol and gpt-6-luna. They are API-only models, so there are no weights to self-host. Three tiers, one recipe The GPT-6 family now has 3 tiers. Astra is the top model for the hardest work. Sol targets complex coding and professional tasks at lower…

Check Point Software released emergency hotfixes to address a critical Security Management Server vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary scripts. The Security Management Server is a central repository that stores and manages security policies, processes administrator changes, and collects system logs across enterprise networks. Tracked as CVE-2026-93616, this path traversal flaw lets unauthenticated threat actors upload arbitrary scripts on vulnerable Check Point Management Servers and execute them in low-complexity attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have urged software companies since May 2024 to remove path traversal weaknesses from their products before shipping, saying such…

In brief White-hat actors moved 40.71 BTC (~$3.31 million) tied to the Coldcard exploit on Sept. 21 in a transaction carrying a “crypto recovery trust” message. Galaxy’s Alex Thorn said a broader sweep pulled 52.37 BTC from several attacker clusters into a fresh address flagged for the same trust—roughly 2.8% of the total exploit. The exploit, which peaked around $130 million, stemmed from a March 2021 Coldcard firmware flaw that made seed phrases guessable. Some of the Bitcoin stolen in the sprawling Coldcard hardware wallet exploit is being routed toward a recovery effort, with white-hat actors moving funds into what…

Arid shrublands in Western Australia were bursting with life in late austral winter 2026, when a profusion of wildflowers brought vivid colors to the rusty ochre landscape. After several wetter-than-normal months earlier in the year, dormant seeds in the soil awoke to produce carpets of blooms. Local experts think the display could be the best the area has seen in nearly two decades. The images above, captured with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on the NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite, compare the more verdant landscape of late August 2026 (right) with a similar time in 2025 (left), when it was drier.…

They have told the BBC the demand for this procedure, which normally costs thousands of pounds in the UK, has increased as part of a wider aesthetic trend to tighten, smooth and lift the face.Surgeons say complications have been linked to clinics across mainland Europe, Africa and Asia, and, when they occur, the lack of aftercare puts a burden on the NHS.As well as Nikita, we have spoken to dozens of people who have experienced problems – including one woman who had to tape her eyes shut to sleep because too much eyelid skin had been removed, while another feared…